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List:       suse-autoinstall
Subject:    Re: [suse-autoinstall] Network Installation nightmares
From:       Francois Uldry <fu-laptop () hors-la-loi ! ch>
Date:       2006-06-14 8:50:24
Message-ID: 200606141050.24275.fu-laptop () hors-la-loi ! ch
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Well, finally got it working.

HTTP source works, NFS does not.

I won't try to figure out what's wrong with it, I will now be able to move to 
autoyast ;)

Thanks for your attention,
François

On Tuesday 13 June 2006 16:40, Francois Uldry wrote:
> Some additionnal informations :
>
> - Network Installation Server root folder cannot be used for Software
> Installation, although individual folders in it can.
>
> I have the feeling that if I had a way to tell YaST, well the packages are
> in those 2 subfolders (SLES9 and CORE9) but the install root is there, that
> would solve my problems.
>
> Is there a way to do that ?
>
> François
>
> On Tuesday 13 June 2006 15:22, fraser_bailey@agilent.com wrote:
> > I found that I had to boot from the SP3 CD, once SP3 was in my depot.
> > Booting from the base distro CD filaed, although I can't now remember
> > what the error was.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Francois Uldry [mailto:fu-laptop@hors-la-loi.ch]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 12:28 PM
> > To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com
> > Subject: [suse-autoinstall] Network Installation nightmares
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is driving me nuts, I am trying to get a simple Network Installation
> > Server (over NFS) to work.
> >
> > What I have done :
> > - Through the control centre, on a SLES 9 SP3, used the control panel to
> > create a SLES Network Installation Image as documented, used the SLES 9
> > original CDs as delivered by Novell. Added the SP 3 CDs to the tree.
> > - Configured DHCP and TFTP to allow network boot. (that works perfectly
> > fine)
> >
> > I have :
> > /install/SLES9, which is the root of the exported filesystem.
> >
> > My problem :
> > - Booting from the network, Yast cannot find package description.
> >
> > Has anyone had that much trouble just getting to a network installation
> > server ?
> >
> > Any help, question, idea welcome !
> >
> > Best regards,
> > François
> >
> >
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